7 Reasons to Upgrade to the Next Generation of SonicWall Email Security Appliances
Email security is still a necessity — even as we race toward 2020. That’s because email remains one of the most effective attack vectors for cybercriminals.
In 2018 alone, SonicWall customers faced an average of 4,164 of phishing attacks. That’s far too great a risk to your business or enterprise to go unchecked.
Fortunately, SonicWall offers powerful email security appliances that defeat today’s most dangerous email attacks, including phishing, business email compromise (BEC) and ransomware. SonicWall Email Security appliances are ideal for organizations that require a dedicated and powerful on-premise solution.
Explore the top seven reasons to upgrade your existing SonicWall Email Security appliances to deliver high-performance, enterprise-grade email security for their business.
Boost UI Speed, Productivity
Do more. Faster. Increased RAM enables the latest SonicWall Email Security Appliances to provide a more seamless user experience with a faster and more responsive UI. This saves time and effort for administrators managing the email security for the organization.
Why upgrade: The new SonicWall Email Security appliances come with 8 GB (ES 5000), 16 GB (ES 7000) and 32 GB (ES 9000) RAM compared to 2 GB (ES 3300) and 4 GB (ES 4300 and ES 8300) RAM of legacy versions. This significantly improves the processing power and responsiveness of the appliances.
Process More Email Volume, Faster
Faster cores increase the speed and accuracy of processing inbound and outbound emails with lower latency. The 64-bit processors increase the computational power and the speed of these appliances compared to older 32-bit appliances. The 64-bit processors are designed to take advantage of the increased access to memory (i.e., higher RAM), improving the mail processing and UI responsiveness.
Why upgrade: The new appliances have 64-bit processors and improved CPUs that increase email filtering and email throughput capacities compared to legacy appliances.
Store More Files, Emails Locally
More onboard storage memory allows you to increase local storage of message logs, junk email and email backups right on the appliance.
Why upgrade: The New ES appliances have 500 GB (ES 5000), 1 TB (ES 7000) and 2 TB (ES 9000) of onboard storage memory compared to 250 GB and 750 GB storage on the old ES series.
Stop Advanced Email Attacks
As SonicWall continues to add advanced threat protection features like Capture ATP Attachment Sandboxing, Advanced URL Protection and more filtering engines, the new appliances provide optimum performance due to increased RAM and processing power.
Why upgrade: Upgrade to the latest hardware to ensure you stay up-to-date with critical firmware patches and updates, and take advantage of new features that stop targeted phishing attacks, email threats and ransomware.
Expand Email Security to Virtual Environments to Reduce Costs
Virtualizing your infrastructure provides many benefits, while significantly improving the cost-effectiveness and performance needed to protect against advanced email threats.
Why upgrade: Enhance scalability and flexibility by expanding virtual infrastructure (e.g., hard disk, RAM and core CPUs) with ease, or move to hosted email security and eliminate infrastructure needs. You can also minimize your upfront investment with low-cost, perpetual virtual appliance software licenses. This virtual approach also lowers ongoing hardware and infrastructure maintenance costs.
Use Cloud-based Service to Improve Security Resiliency, Availability
Avoid business-crippling email downtime, vastly improve Quality of Service (QoS) and workforce productivity.
Why upgrade: SonicWall Hosted Email Security delivers a high degree of business continuity and scalability while fulfilling aggressive SLAs. Hosted Email Security also includes email continuity that allows employees to send and receive email during planned and unplanned outages to mail servers.
Retain Hardware Support and Warranty
Delivering Email Security is a critical function of IT that keeps employees productive and reduces attack surface for cyber criminals.
For current users, it is imperative your secure email solution is covered with the right warranty and support services.
SonicWall ES 3300/4300/8300 series have entered Limited Retirement Mode (LRM) as of April 2018 and is approaching End of Life (EOL) on April 2020. New firmware starting with ES 9.2 were released only for 64-bit appliances. The ES 3300/4300/8300 series will not be supported beyond 04/01/2020 in case of any hardware or firmware issues.
Why upgrade: Every new version of firmware is packed with advanced features and capabilities. ES 9.2 is the current recommended firmware that provides Advanced URL Protection. ES 9.2 and above are only supported on ES 5000 series or 64-bit VA or 64-bit Windows Server.
About SonicWall Email Security Appliances
SonicWall’s hardened, Linux-based email security appliances defend against advanced email-borne threats such as ransomware, zero-day threats, spear-phishing and business email compromise.
The multi-layered secure email solution provides comprehensive inbound and outbound protection, and is available in a range of hardware appliance options that scale up to 10,000 users per appliance.
| Quick Glance: SonicWall Email Security Appliances | ||||||
| Feature | ES 3300 | ES 4300 | ES 8300 | ES 5000 | ES 7000 | ES 9000 |
| CPU | Intel 2.0 Ghz | Core 2 Duo 2.13 Ghz | Xeon Quad Core | Celeron G1820 | Core i3-4330 | Xeon E3-1275 v 3 |
| RAM | 2 GB | 4 GB | 4 Gb | 8 GB | 16 Gb | 32 GB |
| Hard Disk | 250 GB | 2 x 250 GB | 4 x 750 GB | 500 GB | 1 TB | 2 TB |
| Processor | 32-bit | 32-bit | 32-bit | 64-bit | 64-bit | 64-bit |
| Appliance Status | In LRM, EOS 4/1/2020 | In LRM, EOS 4/1/2020 | In LRM, EOS 4/1/2020 |
Active | Active | Active |
| Firmware Status | Not Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported | Full Support | Full Support | Full Support |
| Enhanced Anti-Phishing | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Advanced URL Protection | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Upgrade to SonicWall Email Security
Ready to upgrade to a SonicWall Email Security appliance? Contact your SecureFirst partner today to explore the options that match your business objectives. If you’re not sure who that is, contact SonicWall and we’ll put you in touch.
